Chapter 3 " Invasion"

Disclaimer: Unfortunately I don't own Star Wars or Green Day. All lyrics in this chapter are from Green Day's American Idiot song, or Boulevard of Broken Dreams song, which sadly I don't own either.

During the next three weeks that followed, the girls were very busy and hardly thought of earth at all. They ran errands for various people throughout the base. They also ran messages for Leia to other members of the alliance. Katie who had always loved fixing things and learning about airplanes and space hung around Han and Chewie or Luke. She liked to sit on an empty supply crate in the hanger and watch Han and Chewie work on the Millennium Falcon. Once he even took her inside the ship and showed her the controls she found it fascinating and hoped someday she would be able to learn how to fly a spaceship. Anna hung with Leia when Leia wasn't to busy. Anna loved to hear Leia's plan for a better future for the galaxy and Anna hoped she would be able to help Leia and be a part of it. By the end of the 2nd week they were all friends despite the age differences. But today all rebel members were in a meeting, top secret meeting, not to be heard by ears under the age of 17 so the girls were on their own and very bored. They were sitting near the bank of a river that flowed only a few hundred feet from the base trying to soak up some tropical sun. Anna, who was sitting on a flat rock and bored with just dangling her feet in the warm water sighed, and without turning around to face Katie said,

" ok, now I'm extremely bored do you have any more fun ideas?" when Katie didn't answer Anna turned around to face her and saw she had ear bud type head phones and she was lip singing! As Anna got up and walked over to Katie who was sitting under a tree she noticed she was getting her music from an MP3 player. Wondering what she was listening to Anna yanked the ear bud from Katie's ears and put them in her own. as soon as she put the ear buds in her ear she heard,

" Don't want to be an American idiot!

Don't want a nation under the new

Mania. Can you hear the sound of

Hysteria? The subliminal mind

America. Welcome to a new kind of

Tension all across the alienation where

Everything isn't meant to be ok."

Anna hated the band Green Day! So she ripped the speakers out of her ears and tossed the mp3 player back to Katie. Now truly in a bad mood she said

"I cant believe that you are listening to music from home!" Katie got up from her shady spot shrugged and said

" I don't know , I guess I'm a little home sick. I mean it has been three weeks and we haven't even spoken to our families." Anna's eyes softened as she and Katie sat back under the tree.

"You really do miss home don't you?" Katie smiled,

"yeah but its ok, id much rather be here on a rebel base smack down in the middle of my favorite movie saga" Anna still had one more very critical question

" where did you get your mp3 player anyway?" Katie smirked and said,

" I actually don't know. Last week it was just sitting on my desk in my room. I guess it was magically transported to this galaxy." Anna smirked back and said,

"or it was the will of the force that you could get your music" both girls busted up laughing but suddenly stopped because the air erupted in blaster fire. The girls ran and hid behind a rock for shelter. They heard someone coming, fearing it was an imperial soldier, or worse, they hid lower behind the rock. It turned out to be Luke. Seeing their hiding place he ran over to them and he had to yell over the noise of the constant fire,

"come on you to! If you don't hurry up we'll never get out of here. Han, Leia and Chewie are waiting in the falcon. Follow me!" he managed to say that all in one breath. The girls needing no telling twice, left the sheltered safety of the rock and followed him. They ran for what seemed like ages until they were almost at the space craft when Anna's foot got stuck in a root on the rugged trail. She went down with a cry of surprise. Katie barely heard her over the blasts and Luke didn't hear her at all. Katie turned around and went back to Anna Luke kept on running. Katie knelt down beside Anna and tried her best to help her free her foot, but it seemed like the harder they tried the tighter the roots hold on her foot became. Suddenly everything around them went quiet and they heard eerie heavy mechanical breathing in the bushes just behind them. They then heard a deep voice say

"Remember, I only want the younger of the two girls. I don't care what you do with the other." Katie gulped and quietly continued quite faster to free her friends foot, for she could tell they were talking about them. Then through the trees Vader appeared. With a casual flick of his finger Anna's foot was free of its root prison. He then force choked Anna's friend. He picked up a surprised Anna and used the dark side to put her into a deep sleep. He left Katie on the trail and left.

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Katie opened her eyes shortly afterwards and could tell that it wood do no good for her to go after Vader and rescue Anna so she stood up brushed her self off and ran to were the falcon was docked, hoping they hadn't left without her. To her surprise Han was just walking up the boarding ramp as she got there. he noticed her running as he turned around "come on kid we don't have all day hurry up!"

"sorry I kind of got um, stuck on the trail" she said. Han bought the big fat lie. He realized something was missing " where's Anna" he said. Katie took a deep breath and said,

"Vader got her" barley audible.

"Sorry I couldn't hear you" Han said. Katie stared at the ground and said louder this time

"Vader took her." All that escaped Han's mouth was a quiet "oh"

"Well come on we gotta go!" he said and Katie followed him up the ramp.

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When they got on board, Katie ran to the closet and locked herself in. she stood against the wall and slowly slid down into a sitting position. She hugged her knees to her chin. Vader had kidnapped her best friend and she couldn't do anything about it! The good thing was that Anna would never choose evil. But after she thought some more, Katie knew that Anna would choose to join Vader her idol in a heart beat. He was her favorite Star Wars character after all. Katie missed her family and friends very much. She missed her two best friends from school, Kevin and Alec. She smiled at thought of how Kevin or " Techie Nechie" as he was nicknamed would be fascinated with all the high-tech computer technology on the base and ships, and how Alec would go crazy blowing stuff up and shooting enemy ships out of space. She sighed she was all alone in the galaxy now. She then searched her pockets until she found … her mp3 player ! she blasted her favorite song to drain her sorrows.

" I walk a lonely road, the only one

That I have ever known. Don't know

Where it goes, but its home to me and

I walk alone. I walk this empty street

On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Where the city sleeps and I'm the only

One and I walk alone, I walk alone, I

Walk alone, I walk alone, I walk alone.

My shadows the only one that walks

Beside me my shallow hearts the only

Thing that's beating. Some times I wish

Some one out there will find me, 'till then

I walk alone"

She didn't have time to finish the song however, because she fell asleep, in a closet, where nobody bothered her.

TO BE CONTINUED…….

A/N please, please review! Taking 15 seconds to click the review button and type a sentence isn't that hard! Come on, please!!! On another note Kevin and Alec will probably have a role in the story later on, and isn't Techie Nechie a great nickname!